Definitions

1. noun

The larval stage of many marine crustaceans, such as crabs and shrimps, that are characterized by a series of free-swimming zoeal stages before they settle and metamorphose into their adult form.

“The pseudozoea stage is a critical period in the development of the marine crustacean’s life cycle.”

2. plural noun

The collective term for the pseudozoea of a group of marine crustaceans.

“The pseudozoea of the crab population were studied by marine biologists to understand their development and migration patterns.”